Useful Vocabulary

Here’s some useful vocabulary you can include in your exam!

• Aerial Shot: shot filmed from aircraft or helicopter, extreme high angle.
• Ambient Sound: natural background noise on television or film such as the sound of birds in a wood.
• Ambient Light: natural, available light that is not enhanced in any way.
• Audience: All those who receive or consume any media product.
• Camera Angle: the position of the camera in relation to the main subject. High, low, canted, etc.
• Cinematography: Camera Shots, Angles, Lighting
• Connotation: Suggestive meaning of something, such as red connotates danger, blood.
• Crane Shot: High angle shot filmed with a crane
• Continuity editing: Referred to as invisible editing, so that the whole sequence looks natural.
• Demographics: refers to social characteristics of and audience, described according to groupings such as social class, regional location, gender and age.
• Denotation: literal meaning/ simple description of what an be seen or heard.
• Diagetic sound: sound which the characters can hear.
• Non-Diagetic sound: sound the actors cant hear, e.g.: music played other the scene.
• Enigma: a question or puzzle being raised from a text.

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